Hospital mortality is complex and should be used cautiously in evaluating quality of care. Last 10 years marked by diminishing returns, with growth in costs far outpacing reductions in inpatient mortality http://goo.gl/T16W3

Churchill had a doctor's approval for "medicating with a minimum 250 cc alcohol at meal times" - “This is to certify,” the doctor writes — this in the midst of Prohibition — “that the postaccident convalescence of the Hon. Winston S. Churchill necessitates the use of alcoholic spirits especially at meal times.” The quantity, the doctor continues, is “naturally indefinite,” but the “minimum requirements would be 250 cubic centimeters,” or just over 8 ounces. Archives in NYT http://goo.gl/Yc9cr

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